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Courage Lowrance
This is a poetry reading from the month of July 2024. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
I am posting three villanelles here, the last of which is my own. Go this link for a description of the structure of a villanelle:
https://classicalpoets.org/2016/10/19/how-to-write-a-villanelle-with-examples/
This is a poetry reading from the month of June 2024. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
This is a poetry reading from the month of April, 2024. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
Comus is a masque, written by John Milton, and performed in 1634. A masque is a kind of court play, a festive drama. So it was a little difficult to read out in this format, but hopefully it is still worth enjoying as an audio recording, since the original poem is certainly worth your time.
This is a poetry reading from the month of April, 2024. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
This is a poetry reading from the month of March 2024. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
This is a poetry reading from the month of March 2024. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
This is a poetry reading from the month of February 2024. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
This is a poetry reading from the month of February 2024. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
Three of my favorite poems by Poe :)
P.S.
Watch The Fall of the House of Usher on Netflix. These all show up in it, and it might be awesome.
This is a poetry reading from the month of December 2023. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
This is a poetry reading from the month of December 2023. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
This is a poetry reading from the month of November 2023. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
Sonnet 55 is one of my favorites.
This is a poetry reading from the month of October 2023. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
This is a poetry reading from the month of October 2023. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
This is a poetry reading from the month of August 2023. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
This is a poetry reading from the month of July 2023. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
The fortieth is one my absolute favorites. More of those coming up...
This is a poetry reading from the month of July 2023. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
This is a poetry reading from the month of July 2023. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
This is a poetry reading from the month of June 2023. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
I've read Hughes' poem before on this feed, but I wanted to combine it with material from Whitman this time around. I'd like to focus more on reading American poets, if not now, then in the near future.
This is a poetry reading from the month of June 2023. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
By the poet Keats, a somber reflection on the beauty of a bird and its song.
This is a poetry reading from the month of May 2023. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
This is a poetry reading from the month of May 2023. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
A selection of various poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
This is a poetry reading from the month of May 2023. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
An unnamed poem by Auden from the month in which the Second World War began, though I can't see a connection within this coincidence.
This is a poetry reading from the month of April 2023. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
This is a poetry reading from the month of April 2023. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
This is a poetry reading from the month of April 2023. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
A selection of poems for this Spring, when everything begins to feel a bit more open and free.
This is a poetry reading from the month of March 2023. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
This is a poetry reading from the month of March 2023. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
This is a poetry reading from the month of February 2023. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
This is a poetry reading from the month of December 2022. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
This is a poetry reading from the month of December 2022. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
This is a poetry reading from the month of December 2022. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
George Herbert was a priest and poet in England in the 17th century.
This is a poetry reading from the month of November 2022. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
This is a poetry reading from the month of November 2022. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
A wonderful, nearly mystical, apprehension of the passage of time.
This is a poetry reading from the month of November 2022. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
Kipling manages in this poem to be both realistic and romantic at once about the nature of the overseas colonial soldier in the British Empire.
This is a poetry reading from the month of October 2022. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
The first five of 154 sonnets, written by Shakespeare. All concern themes surrounding love between lovers, appeals for marriage, etc... I hope to read all of them here on the podcast feed, hopefully not all in a row, but over time.
This is a poetry reading from the month of October 2022. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
An early poem by Shelley.
This is a poetry reading from the month of October 2022. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
This poem by Coleridge is a landmark in Romantic poetry: hellish and beautiful, mysterious and tremendous.
This is a poetry reading from the month of October 2022. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
This poem captures, I think, the emotional essence of what we mean by a sea monster: something mythic, godlike, and untouchable, but always there.
This is a poetry reading from the month of October 2022. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
A curious symbolic brew of the ancient and modern worlds.
This is a poetry reading from the month of September 2022. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
A piece of miscellany from John Milton.
This is a poetry reading from the month of September 2022. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
This is a poetry reading from the month of September 2022. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
From one of my favorite American poets.
These are the poems for the months of July and August 2022. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
1. Boundless
2. Escape
3. What's Left
4. Wafting On the Breeze
This is a poetry reading from the month of August 2022. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
A journey of the Classical, the Christian, and the Modern.
This is a poetry reading from the month of July 2022. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
This is a poetry reading from the month of July 2022. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
An image of the Ideal Feminine from Wordsworth.
These are the poems for the month of June 2022. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
1. What Has Passed
2. Little Images
3. Cease
4. Its Passing By
This is a poetry reading from the month of July 2022. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
This is a poetry reading from the month of June 2022. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
These are the poems for the month of May 2022. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
1. Hardly
2. Fade
3. Rainy Wood
This is a poetry reading from the month of June 2022. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
These are the poems for the month of April 2022. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
1. Heritage
2. Libation
3. Rare Elixir
These are the poems for the month of March 2022. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
1. A Beautiful Place
2. Rambling through Space
3. 'Round the Table
4. Already
This is a poetry reading from the month of May 2022. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
A poem of with a Romantic sensibility by the American poet Edgar Allan Poe.
These are the poems for the month of February 2022. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
1. Musings on the Sky
2. Lightly Held
3. Forest's Breath
4. Wispy Wild Way
These are the poems for the month of January 2022. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
1. End of Days
2. Passing Pebbles
3. Concealed Fire
4. Wiser Mind
5. Evening's Breath
These are the poems for the month of December 2021. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
1. Holocaust
2. Songs
3. Oceanic Meditation
4. Bent
These are the poems for the month of November 2021. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
- Time's Rush
- Dead Poets
- Lone Bodies
- Consolations
This is a fortnightly poetic reading in November 2021. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
A meditation on the warmer seasons of the year.
This is a fortnightly poetic reading in February 2022. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
A poem by George Herbert, one of the greatest poets of piety.
These are the poems for the month of October 2021. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
1. 'The Course of Waters'
2. 'Tragedy'
3. 'Mourning Song'
4. 'Desert's Death'
This is a fortnightly poetic reading in November 2021. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
This is a fortnightly poetic reading in October 2021. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
The second reading from C.S. Lewis' 'Spirits in Bondage.'
These are the poems for the month of September 2021. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
1. The Nightmare's Voice
2. Somber Eve
3. Revere
4. Mess
This is a fortnightly essay reading from September 2021. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
An essay about the relationship between myth and theology.
This is a fortnightly poetic reading in September 2021. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
This is a fortnightly poetic reading in September 2021. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
The first poem that makes up Spirits in Bondage, published in 1919 by C.S. Lewis. This poem cycle is rather rich to read through and is too unknown by those who might like much of Lewis's other work. I intend to read through the entirety of this work over the next few months when I record these poems fortnightly.
These are the poems for the month of August 2021. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
This is a fortnightly essay reading from August 2021. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
An essay about the relationship between poetry and pain.
This is a fortnightly essay reading from August 2021. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
A short essay on the nature of poetry in the American experience.
This is a fortnightly poetic reading in July 2021. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
Walt Whitman's lament for the death of Abraham Lincoln.
These are the poems for the month of July 2021. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
This is a fortnightly essay reading from July 2021. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
The second essay of a series on the evolutionary aspects of the origins and nature of poetry.
These are the poems for the month of May 2021. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
This is a fortnightly poetic reading in July 2021. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
One of my favorite sonnets by Shakespeare :)
This is a fortnightly essay reading from May 2021. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
The first essay of a series that explores some potentially true ideas about the origins of poetry and humanity's perception of beauty from an evolutionary perspective.
These are the poems for the month of April 2021. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
This is a fortnightly poetic reading in April 2021. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
A poem concerning the futility of man's pretensions to power and godlike fame.
This is a fortnightly poetic reading in March 2021. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
These are the poems for the month of March 2021. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
This is a fortnightly essay reading from March 2021. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
This essay deals with the activity of poetry in its creation and reception by human beings.
This is a fortnightly poetic reading in March, 2021. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
This poem is by Emily Dickinson, an American poet of the 19th century. The fundamental theme of the poem is the individual before eternity past and future with death as an ever present reality.
This is a fortnightly essay reading from March 2021. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
These are the poems for the month of March 2021. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.
The introductory episode of the Poetical Fragments Podcast. Poetical Fragments is a blog for and about poetry.